Evolution

If evolution really exists (which I don't think it does*) but if it did, I think I have evolved from a Woolly Mammoth.

Why else would I have more hair on the rest of my body than what I do on my head?

I see no need for the underarms or legs of nether regions to have any hair.

I spend way too much time, shaving & tweezing to get rid of it

Looks like it is time for another wax.... my skin twinges with the mere thought of it.....

*If man supposedly evolved from Monkies or gorillas or whatever, then why are they still around? 

How to become a Star Style Blogger

This was so funny - I loved this article because I already know so many of you who are just marvelous at writing about style! Besides Random ramblings - I am not sure what my style is, everyone always seems to have such structured posts and thoughts - mine are just everywhere!!

From HERE:

How To Become A Star Style Blogger

By: Connie Wang & Piera Gelardi, Designed by Joshua Covarrubias

Great taste, a solid camera, a little charm, and some handy html know-how...yes, it takes way more than just that to become a style blogger. The internet's become inundated with thousands of Dot Coms of the style persuasion, and your blog's gotta have some serious mojo in order to be the next Style Rookie, Sea of Shoes, or Fashion Toast. But, that's not to say that there isn't a certain recipe for success—in fact, we've mapped out a step-by-step guide to taking the style blogger world by storm AND rising to the top. Here's how!

My infamous Flirtillinis

Ok so obviously they are named after me, but that would be telling! :-)

In the spirit(excuse the pun) of the Festive Season I thought I would share my secret recipe for the most delicious (and only) cocktail I have successfully created.

It is a type of a spin on an Apple Martini, but I prefer sweet drinks and this is just up my alley.

RaceCar is not allowed to drink due to his Kidney failure, but even he enjoys a glass of my special Flirtillini.

So without further waffling - here is the recipe - let me know how yours turns out:

Flirtillinis


*1 Green Apple - not sweet.
*Chilled Appletiser - (sparkling apple juice)
*Chilled Vodka
*Chilled Green Apple Sourz 
*Some green Oros powder (the kind you use to mix Oros coldrink) or sour green apple jelly powder would also work
*Pretty Martini glasses


1: Slice up apple into pieces and let soak in a saucer of Apple Sourz (this prevents the apple from going brown and also gives it a delicious flavour)
2: Dip finger in water and run around the edge of each glass - immediately dip into a saucer that has enough Oros powder to coat the entire rim - set aside to harden
3: Pour 1 tot of Vodka and 2 tots of Apple Sourz into the glass
4: Top up with Applestiser
5: Make a slit in your apple piece, dip the top into the Oros mixture and position slit side over rim of glass
6: Drink and enjoy!


Warning - guests make request top ups, make enough apple slices just in case!

The Book Bitches

I started our bookclub in May 2009 with the purpose of saving money on books and letting my respective friends meet.

We grew to 9 members, but the original 4. But the new members were recruits of a friend and just didn't fit in with us at all.

So I fired 6 people for not conforming to the rules (hence our new name: The Book Bitches)
 
What were the rules?
 
Champagne is compulsory and you have to have a theme when you host. Not difficult is it?
 
Past themes have included:
 
Funny hats
Uncomfortable shoes
Feather boas
Slippers
Something sparkly
Cleavage Day
High Tea
 
We have had lots of fun and read so many books I would not have ordinarily bought, but thoroughly enjoyed.

Books

Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox's first book describes his onset of symptoms and how they affected his work on the TV show "Spin City". Fox reassures his reader that he is now a better and happier person than he was before his diagnosis. This book is witty and intelligent and urges Parkinson's patients to continue their lives with a positive outlook on life.

I am no one for reading autobiographies and the like, I like to escape into fictional worlds.

Yet this is the second book that has surprised me (1st book: It's not about the Bike - Lance Armstrong) and a book I thoroughly enjoyed.

Michael J Fox is a witty author, but manages to bring you into his mind as he processes what his life is all about when he discovers he has Parkinson's disease.

Very good book indeed.

Keeping with books:

I got this from Claudz 

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
6 The Bible - Too Many Cooks
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce76 The Inferno – Dante 
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


9/100: That is shocking - and I can attribute a few of these to our school making us read them!


5/100: Started, but not completed - all of them older books, perhaps that says something about my tastes!


Seems I go more for the trashy novels! ha ha ha


In a few years time lots of books I have read will be on the above list - wait and see.....


Twilight, My sisters keeper, Girl with the Dragon tattoo etc etc etc

"You need to lose weight"

The other day a colleague came up to me and said the following - almost word for word:

You really need to lose weight. When you started working with us, you were such a pretty girl. Now you are fat, your face is fat and your boobs are too big. You need to find a husband and get married and have children. You used to be such a beautiful girl, but you must lose weight so you can be beautiful again 

I was so flabbergasted, that I walked away - it is not often that I am speechless, this was one of those times.

She was right about 1 thing: I do need to lose weight, not to get married and have children, but to feel better about myself

I have started walking and I am watching what I eat. I think the main problem is that I don't eat breakfast and that slows down my metabolism and then I eat toast for dinner when I am home (starch - not healthy) I will get there in time, I need to get over losing my cat, losing my boyfriend and trying to keep my sanity.

I began remembering back to about a year ago when my friend AC mentioned to her husband that I had a nice cleavage and they didn't look real. The joke started about the Twins (funny because I am a Gemini which is represented by the Twins)
Eventually it grew and we even made a Facebook group for them and everyone joined in on the fun. It is nice to have a feature that people admire and it boosts the confidence (besides, if they are looking at my cleavage, they aren't looking at my Butt! ;-)

Let me show you a few photos from the Group:

 A year on and I have put on about 5kgs and now I try to only get my head in the frame when taking photos and needless to say - The Twins group is no more!

These are the only 2 pics I could find of the Twins, and you will notice I don't wear plunging necklines anymore, the Twins might try come out to play!

Hopefully one day I will be in better shape and can go back to the pretty tops and my beautiful 36C bras....

30 Seconds to Mars - This is War

Just bought their new album - in blue.

Do you have it? Why not?

I love their style of music and I love the raw passion that is Jared Leto.

The dvd included with the CD is really interesting as they show the making of the music video for Kings & Queens and some scenes from their concert - wish I had been there in Jhb.....

Kings & Queens is the song that made me a 30STM fan - but my all time favourite is Closer to the Edge - I can never get sick of that song!

Kings & Queens lyrics

(Oohhh,Oohhh)

In to the night
Desperate & Broken
The sound of a fight
Father has spoken.

(Oohh,Ohhh)

We were the Kings & Queens of promise.
We are the victims of our selves.
Maybe the children of a lesser God
Between Heaven & Hell
Heaven & Hell

In to your lies
Hopeless & Taken
We stole our new life
Through Blood & Pain
In defense of our dreams
In defense of our dreams


We were the Kings & Queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the children of a lesser God
Between Heaven & Hell
Heaven & Hell
Heaven & Hell

The age of man is over
A darkness comes & all
The lesson that we've have learned here
have only just begun

We were the Kings & Queens of the promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the children of a lesser God
Betweens Heaven & Hell

We were the Kings
We were the Queens
We were the Kings
We were the Queens

(oohhhh,ohhhhh,)

Justin Bieber

Don't you love it.... ha ha ha